Case Study: Deakin University achieves 40% capital cost reduction and 96 TB storage savings with HPE Nimble Storage

Deakin University Benefits From Capacity, Savings, and Support With Nimble

Deakin University, a 5‑star Australian university with over 47,000 students and a mix of critical Oracle databases, 955 virtual servers and numerous web applications, needed a reliable, high‑performance storage refresh as part of its four‑year IT asset replacement cycle. The Systems Team required a compact, easy‑to‑manage solution that would deliver strong performance for student management, online learning and research systems while minimizing risk and operational overhead.

Deakin selected Nimble Storage CS460G‑X2 arrays (326 TB before compression) and deployed replication for disaster recovery, migrating its storage network from Fibre Channel to iSCSI. The implementation delivered a 40% reduction in capital costs, an average 1.71x inline compression (≈96 TB saved), lower power usage, better visibility via Nimble’s InfoSight and faster vendor support—freeing staff time and improving overall system resilience.

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